Allot of plugin have a function that is triggered when the plugin is activated. This ‘activation’ function allows the plugin to setup itself, e.g. create a custom table or set some options in the options table. This works fine in a ‘normal’ WordPress website, but when you create a new site in a WordPress Network website these plugin activation functions are not triggered. Continue Reading…
Today I’ll explain how to create one of my favourite WordPress features, a widget. Widgets allow WordPress users to add functionality to their website without requiring any coding experience. Before we create our first widget it’s important we understand the way they work.
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Allot of WordPress users never empty their trash, what could result in a large amount of trashed posts. Since you’ll probably never use these posts again, we can let WordPress delete them automatically after a certain amount of days. We can enable this feature by adding the following line of code to our wp-config.php file.
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When I started off with WordPress I had trouble finding out what file I needed to edit to change the page I was viewing in my browser. I’ve checked the Template Hierarchy dozens of times, trying to figure out what file was loaded by WordPress to display my page.
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In WordPress a revision (copy) of a post is saved each time you save it. This way WordPress enables you to go back to a previous version of a post (remember, a page is also a post). Although this might sound like a feature that may come in handy, most people never use this.
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